SAN LORENZO, THE POPE'S TEAM AS SOME OF YOU MIGHT KNOW, IS THE INCIAL 2013 CHAMPION !!!!!

A ridiculous tournament had to have a ridiculous finish and that's
what happened today when 3 teams that were in a MUST win situation,
failed to do it.

Newell's and Lanus played a
great game, specially in the 2nd half when Lanus had to come back twice
and had the best chances to score a 3rd but couldn't do it. Hats off for
Lanus, they were overall the best team of this semester and if they
hadn't been sometimes too focused on Copa Sudamericana they could have
been the champions of Inicial.

Newell's fading continued in the last game, we'll see if they can
recover from this to be again the very good team they were a few months
ago.

San Lorenzo was very very very nervous the
whole time and still they managed to play a good 1st half where they
were not given a very clear penalty and had a couple of good chances.
Velez pushed in the final minutes and they were so close to win it that
I'm still shaking.

The Inicial champion held to a useful draw knowing what was
happening in the other match and the celebrations started after the
final whistle.

As a San Lorenzo fan I'm not exactly the right
person to say it, but they were a fair champion despite the very
few points (it was 33 in the end, record since the short tournaments and
3 points per win started).

They recovered from some big blows like the 0-3 in the Copa
Argentina final, and specially from the long term injuries of their two
best strikers.

The paid services subscribers know that I wrote when the season started (and mentioned
it more than a few times during the tournament) that San Lorenzo was a
team with many options in attack and I'm glad to say that I was right.

San Lorenzo gets the 12th professional league title
(the club also won 3 during the amateur era, in the early 1900's) and
continues with this weird trend of winning one every 6 years (1995,
2001, 2007 and now 2013 were the latest ones). I really hope that I
won't have to wait until 2019 !!!

They also qualify to Copa Libertadores where they will be in group 2
according to last week's draw. Copa Libertadores is every San Lorenzo
fan's dream and I can't be more excited about playing it again.

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Insane situation in the last few rounds and specially this weekend, in the penultimate round of Inicial 2013.
San Lorenzo was still the only leader, 2 points above everybody else, despite the 2-2 at Atletico Rafaela (coming back from 0-2) from last week and the round started the way they dreamed it: Newell's losing again (7 rounds without a win), Arsenal losing as well (only 1 win in the last 7 matches since winning the Copa Argentina final) and only Velez getting an expected win vs the terrible Colon to get just a little closer.

San Lorenzo had everything to win the championship. A game at home against the tough but irregular Estudiantes, and they also needed Lanus not to win at home vs Boca but the good news was that Lanus was using a reserves lineup (even though they were only 2 points behind San Lorenzo) because they wanted to rest their regulars for the Copa Sudamericana finals that start this Wednesday and they have to travel to Brazil to play Ponte Preta.

What happened ?
San Lorenzo, in front of a packed stadium with 45-50.000 fans that were ready to celebrate failed to win and could only get a 0-0 draw (fair result but they had a very clear penalty not called with 5 minutes left) and watched how the other result they needed was happening a few km from there because Lanus' young lineup played a good game but drew 0-0 vs Boca.

This left San Lorenzo with 32 pts, followed by Newell's, Lanus and Velez all with 30 pts. Only one round left, and you think this is not insane enough ?OK, that's because you don't know that in this last round the schedule has San Lorenzo visiting Velez, and Newell's hosting Lanus !!!!

Due to Lanus commitments in Copa Sudamericana, AFA decided to move the two deciding games to Sunday December 15 while the rest of the round will be played as scheduled this next weekend.

What can happen ?
Well, San Lorenzo still has the biggest chances of winning the championship and they will do it with a win. The other 3 teams have no choice but to win.
If two teams end tied at the top place with the same amount of points then the goals difference doesn't matter and we'll have a final game played in neutral ground.
There are 4 possible combinations for this final game: San Lorenzo - Lanus, San Lorenzo - Newell's, Velez - Lanus or Velez - Newell's.

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